RS 380.10 - Establishment and location; purpose and use
A. The Edward Douglass White Historic Site is established as a facility in the parish of Lafourche under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, as more specifically provided in this Chapter and in R.S. 36:801.8.
B. The Edward Douglass White Historic Site shall be a prehistorical, historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution in the office of the state museum of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, documents, artifacts, objects of art, buildings, and landscape and the like that reflect the social, political, and legal history, cultural history, natural history, and culture of Louisiana emphasizing the southern region of Louisiana.
C. All references to the Edward Douglass White State Commemorative Area shall be deemed to refer to and shall be replaced by the term Edward Douglass White Historic Site.
Acts 1993, No. 507, §2, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 2001, No. 1111, §1.